1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454515903321

Titolo

A constrained space exploration technology program [[electronic resource] ] : a review of NASA's exploration technology development program / / Committee to Review NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2008

ISBN

0-309-12584-7

9786611973087

1-281-97308-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

629.470973

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Outer space Exploration United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996214576203316

Titolo

Informal empire in Latin America : culture, commerce and capital / / edited by Matthew Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England ; ; Carlton, Victoria, Australia : , : Blackwell Publishing : , : Society for Latin American Studies, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-282-17174-7

9786612171741

1-4443-0661-8

1-4443-0662-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series

Disciplina

303.4828041

327.4018

Soggetti

British - Latin America - History

Imperialism

Great Britain Relations Latin America

Latin America Relations Great Britain

Great Britain Commerce Latin America

Latin America Commerce Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Cover Images; Contributor Biographies; Introduction; 1 Rethinking British Informal Empire in Latin America (Especially Argentina); 2 The British in Argentina: From Informal Empire to Postcolonialism; 3 Commercial Christianity: The British and Foreign Bible Society's Interest in Spanish America, 1805-1830; 4 Britain, the Argentine and Informal Empire: Rethinking the Role of Railway Companies; 5 Finance, Ambition and Romanticism in the River Plate, 1880-1892

6 Appropriating the `Unattainable': The British Travel Experience in Patagonia7 `Weapons of the Weak?' Colombia and Foreign Powers in



the Nineteenth Century; 8 `Literature Can Be Our Teacher': Reading Informal Empire in El ingles de los guesos; 9 The Artful Seductions of Informal Empire; 10 Afterword: Informal Empire: Past, Present and Future; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary interrogation of the concept of British 'informal empire' in Latin America.Builds upon recent advances in the historiography of imperialism and studies of the nineteenth-century modern world, most obviously the work of Ann Stoler, Catherine Hall and C.A. BaylyCombines a comparative perspective with the juxtaposition of political economy, cultural history, gendered and postcolonial approachesBy proposing and debating alternative explanatory models, the book breathes new life into the flagging concept of 'informal empire'Illuminates the study of British i